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1812 C. Stewart Let. 12 Nov. in T. Clark Naval Hist. U.S. (1814) II. vi. 245 Much more time will be required to re-rig, re-equip, and replace her guns, stores and other materials.

1899 S. R. Lysaght One of Grenvilles ii. 8 When the old man-of-war..had been..purchased for firewood by a Germany company, he had bought her back in a burst of British fury; and had afterwards put her into dock, had her refitted and rerigged.

1923 Pop. Mech. Mar. 420/2 Arrangements to tow the ship back to its old home port, where it will be rerigged and set up as a permanent memorial of the American sailing-ship days.

1988 R. Woodman Distant Waters i. x. 122 Then we've only to re-rig, ship spars and boats and dig fifty tons o'ballast out o' yon beach.

2008 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 12 Dec. (Mersey ed.) (Features section) 16 Afterwards, the ship was rerigged by the sail and rigging masters who undertook a similar, but larger job, on the clipper, Cutty Sark.

1884 Outing & Wheelman Feb. 395/1 The English craze for yawl boats was short lived..and..the ‘Gannet’ and ‘Aneto’, which last year were rigged as yawls,..are to be re-rigged as sloops for next season.

1895 H. E. Colville Land of Nile Springs xxii. 296 I took the opportunity of re-rigging the boat, which was a sort of deformed schooner very much undermasted, and turned her into a yawl.

1928 New Eng. Q. 1 216 During the war of 1812 she [sc. the America] was razed and rerigged as a privateer, and made a most successful one.

1947 Mariner's Mirror 33 55 This vessel..had been re-rigged with a heavy bald-headed schooner rig.

1967 Mariner's Mirror 53 225 The [Danish] ‘jakt’ or sloop was drawn ashore and sawn in two; the two halves were pulled apart; the sloop was lengthened and built over, fitted with two masts and re-rigged as a galeass.

2000 Leading Lights 3 No. 1. 14/2 There the vessel was rerigged as a lightvessel and took her position in the summer of 1911. She was in service up to 1967/1968.